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I need a new computer to run nascar2. I presently have a 66MHZ machine.
What do you find works the best with nascar2?

200 Pentium, 32 mg ram, 4 mg Rendition 3D video card, 17 inch monitor.  At
least that's what I want!

A P133 with 32 meg ram and a Verite 3d board would make anybody happy.

Q.B.M.

I just bought a computer specifically for NRO and N2.

It is a Pentium Pro 200mhz, 64 meg edo memory, Intel VX motherboard,
Intergraph Reactor,
Viewsonic 17PS (1600x1200) , 33.6 fax modem, 12x CD rom, 3.5gig HD, NE2000
network card.

Cost $3100 delivered.

I run N2 with all detail on and 12 cars ahead with 30fps. It looks totally
awesome!

My backup machine is a amd 133 with SoundBlaster 3D and 32meg. There is a
BIG
difference between the two.

Regards,
        ---Wayne.

I am under the impression that that the MMX Pentiums will be better
suited for what I will it for as the PPro's are not supposed to be real
good with 16bit apps. Had any problems??
Mick in Tampa
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Your freakin backup machine is better than mine. Must be nice.

DaMan

PS - B. Morphin, sounds like a way cool setup you've got.  What part
of the country do you live in -- any chance you need a new friend to
stop by and play sometime?  :)

Pick one or more: Model Rockets (competition-NERCB) / PCs (even Atari!) /
Papyrus ICR-ICR2-NCR / Who needs a life when you have multiple non-lives?

Perhaps, but most games are 32-bit.  On the PPros, Win95 runs slower
than NT because it is a mix of 16-bit and 32-bit code.

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Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

Just one question. Have you actually tried this? Or are you relying on old
PPro hype.

I would not have got this setup if not for Nascar and the
new NRO. Since there is going to be real competition I
think that demands a premium configuration.

I had to really push myself to spend the money but you can't
take it with you so what the heck.

Regards,
        ---Wayne.

Yes I've seen a PPro duel boot to NT and 95, and it was slower in the
95 sessions.  There have been plenty of benchmarks done by computer
magazines that quantify what I saw.

there :-)

There's also a few other enhancements over the current Pentiums:
(Taken from Tom's Hardware and Performance Guide:
http://sysdoc.pair.com/cpu.html)

?doubling of the L1 caches, 16kB data and 16 kB instruction cache
?doubling of the Write Buffers, now 4 instead of 2
?new branch prediction unit, taken from the Pentium Pro
?implementation of a Return Stack, as known from the Cyrix/IBM 6x86
?increase of the Pipelines by one step
?improvement of the Parallel Processing Ability of the two pipelines
?ability to pair up two MMX instructions in one go, hence 2 SIMD
instructions can be processed with 16 byte data in one clock cycle

Early reports with normal (non-MMX) applications that the MMX CPU's are
about 20% faster than a Pentium Classic of the same clock speed.

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The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/

Mick,

I have heard some good things and bad things about the MMX so I decided I
could
not wait. THe way I figure it the Pro should last me until end of next year
and
then I will get whatever the new standard is then.

This machine runs everything fast. It is the quickest computer I have ever
used.
It seems to make the most difference with NT as that is all 32bit but WIN95
has quite
a bit of 32bit in the OS and it really screams.

Regards,
        ---Wayne.

And that is why I would get one. Not for it's MMX capability :-)

That's partially my point as well.  After you throw in the larger
improvement with MMX-enabled applications (24-bit color at 8-bit speeds
for example), it really looks to be a good upgrade: for not much more
money, it's quite a better CPU.  I can't understand why anyone would
buy a Pentium Classic right now.

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Emory University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
The IWCCCARS Project: Q & A Representative
Nascar Setups Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/